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You completely ignored the point. Communities exist currently based on various injustices. You can't correct the injustice without having some impact on who's
by TimPC 4y ago
You completely ignored the point. Communities exist currently based on various injustices. You can't correct the injustice without having some impact on who's in the community. You've argued that forcing anyone out of a community is a greater injustice than fixing any injustice in how that community operates.
Your philosophy is a weird sort of artificial elevation of the status quo. It's almost like you believe moral good is lack of change and everything should remain constant all the time. I on the other hand believe progress is a good thing, even when it requires some change and even when not all of that change is a-priori beneficial to those affected by it.
Your notions of what constitutes ruinous taxation is laughable since even a 100% LVT is set to the economic rent of the land. This can be expensive but it's certainly not ruinous since by definition the land can actually produce this value.
I could also characterize your position as a weird sort of worship of income tax. I could satirize your weak beliefs in bodily autonomy since you think so highly of the government interfering in labour contracts and taking income. This expression would result in equally damning statements akin to the moral outrage you have produced rather than addressing my argument. But it wouldn't be substantive debate, just like your current low-brow cheap-shots aren't.
- teakettle42 4y agoFor all your window dressing, you want to destroy communities, force people out of their homes, and coerce adherence to your viewpoint on how people should live. Whatever injustice you think you’d be correcting, the one you’d be promulgating would be just as immoral. You pretend to lofty ideals because you cannot actually justify the real human costs incurred by your desired form of government social engineering.